Riemann Hypothesis: Has One Of Math's Great Mysteries Finally Been Solved?
Over the past few days, the mathematics world has been abuzz over the news that Sir Michael Atiyah, the famous Fields Medalist and Abel Prize winner, claims to have solved the Riemann hypothesis. read...
View ArticleThe Wisdom Of Crowds - Now With Even More Wisdom
In 1907,Francis Galton recorded the entries from a competition where people guessed the weight of an ox. After analyzing hundreds of estimates the statistician found that while individual guesses...
View ArticleNew Didactic Challenge: Turn The Roulette Table On The Casino
SOCK-PUPPET: All your talk about betting strategies is irrelevant to the casino. The casino takes the money from those who just lost and gives it to those who won, from black to red or red to black. On...
View ArticleRandom Walk Between Limits Versus Here And Now In Many World/Mind Zen Gambling
The most crucial to happy gambling generally (apart from being prepared for losing, since you create a losing copy of yourself with certainty) is your Happy-Enough-Ceiling, where if you reach it, you...
View ArticleMany World/Mind Zen And Gambling: Large Bets And Happy Enough Ceiling
Mental Health Warning:Many World/Mind (MW/M) descriptions may aggravate mental conditions; suicidal ideation has been recognized as a pitfall along the path of Zen-like wisdoms by a wide range of...
View ArticleTrevor Hastie Lectures In Padova
Trevor Hastie, the Stanford University guru on Statistical Learning (he coined the term together with his colleagues Tibshirani and Friedman) is in Padova this week, where he is giving a short course...
View ArticleTriple Or Bust: Paradox Resolved
A few days ago I discussed the coin toss game ‘triple or bust‘. The game is between Alice and Bob. Alice start the game by writing a $ 1.00 IOU to Bob. Alice then makes at least six subsequent tosses...
View ArticleLisa Long Leg: Vongehr’s Rational Free Speech Trump Cross For The Alt Right...
Lovely Lisa Long Leg and Heil Hitler Screaming Nazi once again visit the Stupid Donald Trump Follower’s office in the mathematics department:Lovely Liberal Lisa: Heil Trump!Stupid Donald Trump...
View ArticleThe Three Cubes Problem
Two days ago, before returning from Israel, my fiancee Kalliopi and I had a very nice dinner in a kosher restaurant near Rehovot in the company of Eilam Gross, Zohar Komargodski, and Zohar's wife Olga....
View ArticleWas Euclid A Black Woman? Sorting Through The False History And Bad...
A false history of science was used to initiate colonial education, in support of colonialism. This false history persists. In a recent article about decolonizing mathematics, for instance, Professor...
View ArticleWhat's Your Risk In The Pamplona Bull Run? The Math
During the Pamplona, Spain, "Running of the Bulls" you won't need all of the ambulances that are placed along the route, so how do event organizers know where they should be? Statistics helps know....
View ArticleHow To Win Money Betting On Euro 2016
UK bookmakers will undoubtedly benefit from three of the home nations (England, Northern Ireland and Wales) making it to the Euro 2016 finals. But if you want to bet with your head, rather than your...
View ArticleRandom Walking The Odds Of Ferris Bueller Being Caught On His Day Off
Sometimes we all just want to take a day off, be it from work or school. In the classic 1980s movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary, the title character spent his...
View ArticleDeveloped World Girls Do Better At Math
The 'maths gender gap' was eliminated in the United States during the Bush administration under the No Child Left Behind program, and it has closed substantially in European countries and parts of Asia...
View ArticleScience Prediction: Who Will Be The Best Team In Baseball In 2016?
After being one of the few who picked the Mets to make it to the postseason in 2015, NJIT Mathematical Sciences Professor and Associate Dean Bruce Bukiet has published his projections of how the...
View Article7 Is A Lucky Number, But Why?
Football teams have been wearing numbers since Arsenal experimented with putting their players in numbered shirts in 1928 (it didn’t bring them much luck – they lost 3-2 to Sheffield Wednesday). But it...
View ArticleThe Greenhouse Effect Fallacy
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903.It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that...
View ArticleA Workshop On Applied Statistics
A Sino-Italian workshop on Applied Statistics was held today at the Department of Statistical Sciences of the University of Padova. The organizers were Alessandra Brazzale and Alessandra Salvan from...
View ArticleOn Mathematical Models
When a system is well understood, a well-constructed mathematical model of that system can make realistic predictions based on the data sets fed into it. However, when a system is not well-understood,...
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